Spinal Service
The Spinal Service provides specialist multidisciplinary assessment and management of rehabilitation needs for children and young people with spina bifida or spinal cord injury/disease.
Services provided
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation assessment and review
- Initial rehabilitation care planning
- Time-limited, goal-focussed, multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes
- Endurance reconditioning
- Psychosocial support
- Bladder and bowel management
- Wound management
- Support independence in daily activities
- Liaison with education and school support staff
- Home / school programmes
- Referral to and ongoing liaison with local community services
- Support for health professionals caring for children living in regional and remote locations including via TeleHealth
Services are provided by
- Paediatric Rehabilitation Specialist
- Nursing staff
- Allied Health staff including Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Social Work
Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injury Factsheets
- Be active adolescents with spinal cord injury
- Be active kids with spinal cord injury
- Bladder management and spinal cord injury
- Bowel management and spinal cord injury
- Dealing with anxiety, grief and loss
- Foot care and spinal cord injury
- Healthy lifestyle
- Hospital admission and spinal cord injury
- Making decisions about treatment in spinal cord injury
- Reintegration to school
- Relationships, sexuality, fertility and spinal cord injury
- Starting school and spinal cord injury
Spina Bifida
Spina Bifida Factsheets
- Adolescents and adults with spina bifida
- Antenatal consultation in spina bifida
- Be active adolescents and adults
- Be active kids with spina bifida
- Care of a newborn baby with spina bifida
- Dealing with anxiety, grief and loss
- Equipment needs
- Foot care
- Healthy lifestyles for spina bifida
- Hospital admissions and spina bifida
- Introduction to bowel management and spina bifida
- Lipomas and Lipomyelomeningoceles
- Living well with spina bifida
- Lower limb paralysis and spina bifida
- Making decisions about treatment in spina bifida
- Pressure relief technique and spina bifida
- Protecting your skin
- Relationships and sexuality
- Role of the treating team: Occupational Therapy
- Role of the treating team: Physiotherapy
- Role of the treating team: Social Work
- Tethered cord and spina bifida
- Transition to school